Application close date:
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

This role is part of Enterprise Technology (ET), where we're developing the digital infrastructure needed to build the road to space, with an emphasis on digital capabilities required to advance Blue Origin's mission. Enterprise Technology is the center of excellence for digital technology at Blue Origin, providing oversight and governance to align technology and business strategies.

We are looking for a skilled, motivated engineer to join a team developing manufacturing automation and enterprise systems to drive efficiency throughout the company. As a software engineer, you will be a key member of a team of experts supporting manufacturing developing software platforms to enable real-time analysis and decision-making. We are constantly innovating in the ways we are automating and accelerating the delivery of products using pioneering software and hardware technologies. We use the latest AWS and GenAI platforms and approaches to build distributed, highly available systems to achieve our goals.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Responsibilities:

• Develop new tools and applications that enable manufacturing teams to automate existing processes and standardize on performance-based benchmarks.
• Contribute to the design, implementation, and deployment of successful enterprise-scale systems and services in support of operations and the businesses they support.
• Produce quality user documentation for defining integrations between enterprise-level applications.
• Adopt software DevOps technologies to solve software automation problems.
• Identify feature gaps between enterprise systems and develop remediation plans.
• Share knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering standard methodologies.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional software development experience, preferably in a full stack engineering role.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, data structures, and the ability to translate domain expertise into scalable software applications.
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language such as Java, Python, or a comparable language.
• Hands-on experience with modern backend frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, FastAPI, Django, Express.js, or similar frameworks.
• Frontend development experience using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, and modern frontend tooling and frameworks.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining APIs and building production applications that consume or expose API-based services.
• Experience standing up and supporting servers, databases, services, and enterprise-level applications in production environments.
• Strong familiarity with SQL, relational databases, and general database design concepts; experience with NoSQL databases is a plus.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or other cloud infrastructure platforms in a production or enterprise environment.
• Solid understanding of version control systems such as Git, including branching strategies, pull requests, and code review practices.
• Experience with automated testing, debugging, performance tuning, and delivering secure, maintainable, production-ready code.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI tools on a day-to-day basis to improve engineering productivity, including code generation, debugging, testing, documentation, research, and solution design.
• Internal drive to deliver high-quality results, proactively identify requirements, and propose practical, scalable solutions.
• Ability to take technical ownership of features or systems, step in to support team members as needed, and collaborate effectively to identify and resolve technical issues.
• Outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.

Desired:

• Experience using DevOps practices and tools to build, test, deploy, monitor, and operate applications in production.
• Understanding of ERP, MES, and other common manufacturing software.
• Experience evaluating, integrating, or building AI-enabled capabilities into business or engineering workflows.
• Familiarity with Industrial Internet of Things, connected manufacturing systems, or data acquisition from production environments.

Base Pay Range for:
WA applicants is $164,652.00 - $230,512.80

Other site ranges may differ

Culture Statement

Don't meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits

• Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion. Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation. Please check with your recruiter for more details.